sunday afternoon at grandma's
Feb. 6th, 2011 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beachlassSpending the day at my mom's and she has my great grandmother's cookbooks out. Handwritten recipes and household tips mixed in with knitting patterns and newspaper clippings.
Here's a family chocolate recipe, verbatim - I have to try it, because frankly... potato.
Home made chocolates (Big Ones)
a large potatoe, cooked & lukewarm
mashed 1/4 lb butter (1/2 cup)
1 teaspoon vanilla, pinch of salt
Mix with icing sugar to (dough like)
Coating 1/8 piece parawax
5 chocolate pieces (few blocks melted put white sugar into chocolate shape dip in chocolate coating and place on waxed paper to set.
She didn't really believe in extraneous instructions. The banana cake recipe my mom was looking for told her helpfully to "mix inthe usual way" and "bake". Some of the more detailed recipes include the instruction "bake in moderate oven".
Here's a family chocolate recipe, verbatim - I have to try it, because frankly... potato.
Home made chocolates (Big Ones)
a large potatoe, cooked & lukewarm
mashed 1/4 lb butter (1/2 cup)
1 teaspoon vanilla, pinch of salt
Mix with icing sugar to (dough like)
Coating 1/8 piece parawax
5 chocolate pieces (few blocks melted put white sugar into chocolate shape dip in chocolate coating and place on waxed paper to set.
She didn't really believe in extraneous instructions. The banana cake recipe my mom was looking for told her helpfully to "mix inthe usual way" and "bake". Some of the more detailed recipes include the instruction "bake in moderate oven".
